"Selznick picture ""Rebecca"" (1940) was Hitchcock's first American film, set in a Hollywood version of England's Cornwall and based on a novel by English novelist Daphne du Maurier. The film stars Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. The story concerns a naïve (and unnamed) young woman who marries a widowed aristocrat. She goes to live in his huge English country house, and struggles with the lingering reputation of his elegant and worldly first wife Rebecca, who died under mysterious circumstances. The film won Best Picture at the 13th Academy Awards; the statuette was given to Selznick, as the film's producer. Hitchcock"
"The Birds (story) ""The Birds"" is a horror story by British writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in her 1952 collection ""The Apple Tree"". It is the story of a farmhand, his family, and his community that are attacked by flocks of birds and seabirds in ""kamikaze"" fashion. The story is set in du Maurier's native Cornwall shortly after the end of the Second World War. By the end of the story it becomes clear that all of Britain is under aerial assault. The story was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's film ""The Birds"", released in 1963, the same year"
"novel into French and sent it to a publisher in Paris, who she learned was also Ms. du Maurier's [publisher] only after ""Rebecca"" became a worldwide success. The novels have identical plots and even some identical episodes."" Author Frank Baker believed that du Maurier had plagiarised his novel ""The Birds"" (1936) in her short story ""The Birds"" (1952). Du Maurier had been working as a reader for Baker's publisher Peter Davies at the time he submitted the book. When Hitchcock's ""The Birds"" was released in 1963, based on du Maurier's story, Baker considered, but was advised against, pursuing costly litigation"
"""Her writings on education ... are highly persuasive, just as some of her essays on the perils of regulating pornography and the puritanical excesses of the women's movement radiate a fierce common sense... Unfortunately, Ms. Paglia has a way of undermining her more interesting arguments with flip, hyperbolic declarations"". In 1998, in commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the release of Alfred Hitchcock's film ""The Birds"", the British Film Institute commissioned Paglia to write a book about the film. The book interprets the film as ""in the main line of British Romanticism descending from the raw nature-tableaux and sinister femme-fatales"
"Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 ""The Birds"", loosely based on Daphne du Maurier's story of the same name, which tells the tale of sudden attacks on people by violent flocks of birds. Ken Loach's admired 1969 ""Kes"", based on Barry Hines's 1968 novel ""A Kestrel for a Knave"", tells a story of a boy coming of age by training a kestrel. Parasitoids have inspired science fiction authors and screenwriters to create disgusting and terrifying parasitic alien species that kill their human hosts, such as in Ridley Scott's 1979 film ""Alien"". Plants too, both real and invented, play many roles in literature and"
"of ""The Birds"" was documented by the writer in his 1997 autobiography ""Me and Hitch"", which contains a variety of correspondence between the writer, director and Hitchcock's assistant, Peggy Robertson. Hunter began working on the screenplay in September 1961. He and Hitchcock developed the story, suggesting foundations such as the townspeople having a guilty secret to hide, and the birds an instrument of punishment. He suggested that the film begin using some elements borrowed from the screwball comedy genre then have it evolve into ""stark terror"". This appealed to Hitchcock, according to the writer, because it conformed to his love"
"York when Hitchcock saw her, in October 1961, in an NBC television ad for Sego, a diet drink: ""I signed her because she is a classic beauty. Movies don't have them any more. Grace Kelly was the last."" He insisted, without explanation, that her first name be written in single quotation marks: 'Tippi'. In ""The Birds"", Melanie Daniels, a young socialite, meets lawyer Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) in a bird shop; Jessica Tandy plays his possessive mother. Hedren visits him in Bodega Bay (where ""The Birds"" was filmed) carrying a pair of lovebirds as a gift. Suddenly waves of birds"
"and was asked by Hitchcock to play the leading role in his upcoming film ""The Birds"". ""I was so stunned. It never occurred to me that I would be given a leading role in a major motion picture. I had great big tears in my eyes"", Hedren later recalled. ""The Birds"" (1963) was Hedren's screen debut. Hitchcock became her drama coach, and gave her an education in film-making as she attended many of the production meetings such as script, music or photography conferences. Hedren said, ""I probably learned in three years what it would have taken me 15 years to"
"film was a modest success, grossing more than $500,000 at the box office with a $361,000 budget, but Jackson reportedly disliked the movie, particularly its portrayal of Aunt Morgen as a flirtatious floozy rather than the caring and steady woman depicted in the book. She described the film as ""Abbott and Costello meet a multiple personality."" The Bird's Nest (novel) The Bird's Nest is a 1954 novel by Shirley Jackson. The plot concerns a young woman, Elizabeth Richmond, with multiple personality disorder. While writing ""The Bird's Nest"", Jackson suffered from insomnia, backaches, and paranoia, symptoms similar to those the main"
"also published short stories, memoirs (one on mysticism and faith healing), and a biography of her second husband, Caradoc Evans. The summer of 1911 marks the date of the first novel by Marguerite, signed as Oliver Sandys, ""The Woman in the Firelight"", concluded a few weeks after the wedding. Her first successful novel, however, was ""The Honeypot"" (1916), inspired by her experiences as an actress; it was adapted to film in 1920. Nine more of her novels were adapted to film between 1922 and 1933, notably ""The Pleasure Garden"" (1925), debut film of director Alfred Hitchcock. In the mid-1920s, she"
"actress he brought from relative obscurity to star in his 1963 film ""The Birds"". Hitchcock becomes infatuated with his leading lady; when she rebuffs his advances, he subjects her to a series of traumatic experiences during the filming of ""The Birds"". Hitchcock's obsession with Hedren continues when she stars in his next production, ""Marnie"". Hedren grows increasingly uncomfortable with his attentions, and decides that she needs to escape the situation. However, she cannot work elsewhere because of her exclusive contract with Hitchcock; this effectively ends her Hollywood career. ""The Girl"" made its television debut in the United States on 20"
"Little Birds Little Birds is Anaïs Nin's second published work of erotica, which appeared in 1979 two years after her death, but was apparently written in the early 1940s when she was part of a group ""writing pornography for a dollar a day."" The book is a collection of thirteen short stories. The sexual topics covered are quite varied, ranging from pedophilia to lesbianism, but linked by an interest in female subjectivity and in the dialectic of discourse and intercourse. Many of the same characters that appear in ""Delta of Venus"", her first published book of erotica, re-occur here. The"
"titles inform the viewer that Hitchcock and Hedren never worked together again, and ""The Birds"" and ""Marnie"" are considered his last classic films. ""The Girl"" is based on Donald Spoto's 2009 book, ""Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies"", which examines the relationships between Alfred Hitchcock and the female stars of his films. Spoto wrote that Hitchcock attempted to turn Tippi Hedren (star of ""The Birds"" and ""Marnie"") into his perfect woman, choosing the clothes and lipstick he thought she should wear. Hedren told Spoto that Hitchcock fantasised about running off with her. Details of a film examining"
"Kim Novak (who starred in one of Hitchcock's films) and Nora Brown (widow of one of Hitchcock's close friends) disputed the film's version of events. The film is a partially fictionalised account of the relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren. In 1961, Hitchcock notices Hedren in a television commercial for a diet drink. He wants to turn her into the next Grace Kelly, with whom he had worked extensively during the 1950s. Hedren passes her screen test and is groomed for the starring role in Hitchcock's latest film, ""The Birds""; the director instructs her about her dress and appearance."
"the story was adapted as the silent movie ""A Bit o' Heaven"" starring Mary Louise as Carol, Donald Watson and Ella Gilbert as Mr. and Mrs. Bird and Mary Talbot as Mrs. Ruggles. The Birds' Christmas Carol The Birds' Christmas Carol is a novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin printed privately in 1886 and published in 1888 with illustrations by Katharine R. Wireman. Wiggin published the book to help fund the Silver Street Free Kindergarten, which she founded in 1878. The story is about Carol Bird, a Christmas-born child, a young girl who is unusually loving and generous, having a positive"
"his autobiography ""I Follow but Myself"" Baker stated that it bore some resemblance to ""The Terror"" by Arthur Machen (first published 1917). When Alfred Hitchcock's ""The Birds"" was released in 1963, ostensibly based on a short story ""The Birds"" (1952) by Daphne du Maurier, Baker considered pursuing litigation against Universal Studios. but eventually decided against doing so because legal counsel considered that the works were substantially different. The opinion states: ""The treatment of the general idea of attacks by birds in the two works is as different as it could be."" Du Maurier denied that she had taken the idea"
"I didn't want it to be taken advantage of, twisted, turned and made into an even uglier situation than it was"". According to Spoto's book, Hitchcock brought in two members of his crew during the filming of ""The Birds"" and asked them to keep careful watch on the activities of Hedren, ""when she left the set - where she went, who she visited, how she spent her free time"". He then advised her on what she should eat, whom she should see, and how she should live. He told the cast and crew they were not allowed to talk to"
"Ethel Griffies Ethel Griffies (born Ethel Woods, 26 April 1878 in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire – 9 September 1975 in London) was an English actress of stage, screen and television. She is perhaps best-known to modern audiences as the ornithologist Mrs. Bundy in Alfred Hitchcock's ""The Birds"" (1963). Griffies was the daughter of actors Samuel Rupert Woods and Lillie Roberts. Taken onstage at the age of three, she continued to act for the next 86 years. Griffies married actor Walter Beaumont in 1900, and he died in 1910. In 1914, she married actor Edward Cooper, who predeceased his wife"
"expect: McBain novels had a consistent writing style, while Hunter novels were more varied. Under the Hunter name, novels steadily appeared throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s, including ""Come Winter"" (1973) and ""Lizzie"" (1984). Hunter was also successful as screenwriter for film and television. He wrote the screenplay for the Hitchcock film ""The Birds"" (1963), loosely adapted from Daphne du Maurier's eponymous 1952 novelette. In the process of adapting Winston Graham's novel ""Marnie"" (1961) for Hitchcock, Hunter and the director disagreed on the rape scene, and the writer was sacked. Hunter's other screenplays included ""Strangers When We Meet"" (1960),"
"The Summer Birds The Summer Birds is a children's novel by British writer Penelope Farmer, published in 1962 by Chatto & Windus, and receiving a Carnegie Medal commendation. It is the first of three books featuring the Makepeace sisters, Charlotte and Emma, These three books are sometimes known as the ""Aviary Hall"" books. At the age of twenty-one, Penelope Farmer was contracted for her first collection of short stories, ""The China People"". Whilst working as a teacher for the London County Council Education Department, she was approached by editor Margaret K. McElderry of Harcourt Brace to write a children's novel."
"Luis Borges' short story ""25th August, 1983"", ""Double Take""'s narrative plot is based on a fictional encounter Alfred Hitchcock has with an older version of himself. Whilst on set of his 1962 film ""The Birds"", Hitchcock calls a twelve-minute break in order to answer a phone call in one of the universal studio buildings. After a foreboding encounter with a security guard, Hitchcock finds his way into a room similar to the tearooms in both the Chasen's hotel in Los Angeles and the Claridge's hotel in London. Here, Hitchcock and his doppelgänger meet. The ensuing conversation between the two is"
"birds; in 2009 the number was estimated to be closer to 40 per cage. On August 18, 1961, the ""Santa Cruz Sentinel"" reported that thousands of crazed sooty shearwaters were sighted on the shores of North Monterey Bay in California, regurgitating anchovies, flying into objects, and dying on the streets. The incident sparked the interest of local resident Alfred Hitchcock, along with a story about spooky bird behavior by British writer Daphne du Maurier, helping to inspire Hitchcock's 1963 thriller ""The Birds"", a cautionary tale of nature revolting against man. The film is now ranked among the American Film Institute's"
"was also inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film ""The Birds."" ""The Birds"" starred actress Tippi Hedren, who appeared in Nguyen's earlier film ""Julie and Jack."" ""Birdemic"" includes footage of that appearance, playing on a television. The movie contains several anti-war statements. On the DVD commentary, the director explained that one early inspiration for the movie was the anti-war movie ""Apocalypse Now"", and that at the end of the movie the birds stopped their attack because they wanted to have peace, and to give humans a second chance to help the environment. He said that as production continued, he became more"
"Francisco with her sister Nora assisting her, and the two were instrumental in the establishment of over 60 kindergartens for the poor in San Francisco and Oakland. She moved from California to New York, and having no kindergarten work on hand, devoted herself to literature. She sent ""The Story of Patsy"" and ""The Bird's Christmas Carol"" to Houghton, Mifflin & Co. who accepted them at once. Besides the talent for story-telling, she was a musician, sang well, and composed settings for her poems. She was also an excellent elocutionist. Her first literary work was ""Half a Dozen Housekeepers"", a serial"
"first choice to play the title role, Grace Kelly, by then Princess Grace of Monaco, withdrew from the project when the citizens of Monaco objected to her appearing in a film, especially as a sexually disturbed thief. Also, when Kelly married Prince Rainier in 1956, she had not fulfilled her contract with MGM, which could have prevented her from working for another studio. As a consequence of Kelly's departure from the film, Hitchcock put it aside to work on ""The Birds"" (1963). After completing ""The Birds"", Hitchcock returned to the Winston Graham adaptation. Evan Hunter, who had written the screenplay"
"a scroll saying that when Alfred Hitchcock's film ""The Birds"" (1963) was released, audiences laughed at the notion of birds revolting against humanity, but when an attack perpetrated by birds occurred in 1975, no one laughed. This is followed by a precredits sequence of a tomato rising out of a woman's garbage disposal. Her puzzlement turns into terror as the tomato draws her into a corner. Following the credits, the police investigate her death. One officer discovers that the red substance with which she is covered is not blood, but tomato juice. A series of attacks perpetrated by tomatoes occurs"
"The Bird's Nest (novel) The Bird's Nest is a 1954 novel by Shirley Jackson. The plot concerns a young woman, Elizabeth Richmond, with multiple personality disorder. While writing ""The Bird's Nest"", Jackson suffered from insomnia, backaches, and paranoia, symptoms similar to those the main character of the novel is afflicted with. She took a break from writing the novel in the summer of 1953, but the symptoms returned when she continued writing the book that fall. Each chapter of the novel follows a specific character. Chapter One follows Elizabeth, a shy, rather colorless young woman who lives with her Aunt"
"Birds"". According to Hedren, he offered her the role of Marnie during filming of ""The Birds"". Hedren told writer Moral that she was ""amazed"" that Hitchcock would offer her this ""incredible role"", calling it a ""once-in-a-lifetime opportunity"". In 2005, more than 40 years after the film's release, Hedren declared in an interview that ""Marnie"" was her favorite of the two films she made with Hitchcock, because of the intriguing, complex, challenging character that she played. Male lead Sean Connery had been worried that being under contract to Eon Productions for both James Bond and non-Bond films would limit his career"
"blonde, who at first appears erotically remote, later emerges as down-to-earth and approachable (see ""Family Plot""). The Pleasure Garden (film) The Pleasure Garden is a 1925 British silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his directorial debut. Based on a novel by Oliver Sandys, the film is about two chorus girls at the Pleasure Garden Theatre in London and their troubled relationships. Jill, a young dancer, arrives in London with a letter of introduction to Mr. Hamilton, proprietor of the Pleasure Garden Theatre. The letter and all her money are stolen from her handbag as she waits to see him."
"Tintner include ""The Secret Garden"" (1911), by Frances Hodgson Burnett; ""Poor Girl"" (1951), by Elizabeth Taylor; ""The Peacock Spring"" (1975), by Rumer Godden; ""Ghost Story"" (1975) by Peter Straub; ""The Accursed Inhabitants of House Bly"" (1994) by Joyce Carol Oates; and ""Miles and Flora"" (1997)—a sequel—by Hilary Bailey. Further literary adaptations identified by other authors include ""Affinity"" (1999), by Sarah Waters; ""A Jealous Ghost"" (2005), by A. N. Wilson; and ""Florence & Giles"" (2010), by John Harding. Young adult novels inspired by ""The Turn of the Screw"" include ""The Turning"" (2012) by Francine Prose and ""Tighter"" (2011) by Adele Griffin."
"""truth"" beyond one possible solution to the puzzles of her life and work."" Laurie Bird Laurie Bird (September 26, 1953 – June 15, 1979) was an American film actress and photographer. She appeared in three films during the 1970s. Two of them were directed by Monte Hellman. She was romantically involved with Hellman and Art Garfunkel; committing suicide in the latter's apartment by taking an overdose of Valium. Bird inspired one of Tim Kinsella's novels. Bird's mother died when she was three. Her father was an electrical engineer. She had two elder brothers. Her strict father restricted her social life"
"to supporting appearances in ""The Valley of Decision"" (1945), ""The Green Years"" (1946, as Cronyn's daughter), ""Dragonwyck"" (1946) starring Gene Tierney and Vincent Price and ""Forever Amber"" (1947). Over the next three decades, her film career continued sporadically while she found better roles on the stage. Her roles during this time included """" (1951) opposite James Mason, ""The Light in the Forest"" (1958), and a role as a domineering mother in Alfred Hitchcock's film, ""The Birds"" (1963). On Broadway, she won a Tony Award for her performance as Blanche Dubois in the original Broadway production of ""A Streetcar Named Desire"""
"who was inspired by Capote's memories of Lee as a child, was played by Aubrey Dollar. Harper Lee Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926February 19, 2016) was an American novelist widely known for ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Though Lee had only published this single book, in 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature. Additionally, Lee received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She was also known for assisting"